No Pandora outside US?!
visiting Pandora redirects me to this stupid page..
WTF?

soooo hate to be branded.. X-(
nope.. 'm not a .net expert.. spendin an year around a technology does not conjure an expert.. not if I choose not to.. coz I've always believed in concepts over concrete details.. I'd gladly be branded ignorant over gettin nailed over expertise.. so, please don't stamp .net on me just coz I wasn't given a chance elsewhere..

never felt so sick of XML as when workin with Biztalk.. n that probably is the least of the annoyances!!

or probably 'tis just my current project..

TiddlyWiki

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

not often do I fall for an application.. but this one made it to my list on the first site ;)
it's a quick wiki, very usable and damn too easy to deploy..
almost puts xcopy deployment to shame :D

here's what u need to do..

• download the html page (using a link that appears on the homepage)..
• run it inna browser of ur choice..

oh well, that's all u need to do.. u can start using it straightaway, unless u don't like the way it looks n wanna do some plastic surgery, which btw u can easily achieve since all the source is in the page that u've downloaded :)

took me less than 5 minutes to get the whole thing and ftp it over to Pandela (a decent free hosting that I use).. another minute to open it from the hosted location and use it :)

haven't seen anything simpler :)

haf bin tagged..
by Mr. Gawde.. so here's five of the lesser known (n mostly useless) facts abt me.. oh, they're safe to read.. none of the 'll have to kill ya if I told ya types here ;)

[Fact 5]
first time I ever bunked a class (intentionally) was in my XI standard.. probably Kasaiah's class with an excuse to fill up KVPY application.. until then I was the innocent, nice kid who's regular to classes and maintained notes n all that :D.. then I figured out bunking is okay as long as you can think up a nice excuse (/lame excuse depending on whom u're tackling).. after that nobody has seen me regularly in any class (not even my favourite subjects).. (of course, no notes either :D )

[Fact 4]
ppl find me difficult to handle when angry, mostly coz it comes wit an amplified careless attitude (which definitely begins to look enuf damaging to them) :D.. my general anger pattern consists of either/all of: a cold stare, extremely logical arguments that can make them plead guilty/uncomfortable at least, a tone that creates a sort of uncomfortable silence around, a glimpse of the upcoming damage which leaves them guessin if I really meant it or I was just threatening.. well, I end up regrettin most of the times.. but the good thing's that there aren't many things that make me angry..

[Fact 3]
one of my dream (or rather a wild wish) is to be able to command ANY machine (small/large/whatever) on the planet to my wish.. but well, I kno that's not very realistic.. moreover I never work towards realizin my dreams, so the planet continues to be as safe as it ever was ;)

[Fact 2]
I was the last student to speak in our XII farewell party.. not that I was too shy.. but nobody was given a chance to talk after me.. my speech presented a few facts to the juniors like how teachers get mean and nonsense, and how they keep discouraging students while they shud be encouraging them, and a few indirect suggestions as to why they don't really need a teacher n can learn a subject all by themselves.. all these while I was holdin back my temptation to give real-life examples (with real names :D ).. while some teachers took it in a good spirit, most others (includin a bald principle) found it hard to digest, and reminded us (while tryin to keep a straight face) that we're seriously runnin out of time :D

[Fact 1]
by the end of 5th sem, I was able to access any server in the college, xcept one Unix box which was almost always switched off (n probably wasn't important).. never got root.. but had write access to most configurations and databases.. i.e. enuf to wreak havoc if I'd wished.. (I didn't coz I generally don't like to get nasty, but prefer to make sure that I have the option open if I want to :D..)
nah.. it wasn't hacking.. only that the stupid admins thought security by obscurity is the way to go, which means you just have to see thru the first layer and know what to look for and where..
I crafted my own 6th sem internal marks ;) I kno what u're thinkin.. that's not nasty/mean/bad ethics coz I dint need marks in 6th sem and I just pushed it up by around 10-20 marks (overall), just for testin :D

and well, the bonus fact:
I do feel a lil bad sayin this, but I dunno most of my 'B' section classmates (I was in 'A' section).. I kno a few n recognize a few others, but they're mostly hostellites..

and another bonus fact:
I've been in 'A' section all my student life, beginning since when I was a kid till end of college :D

Giveaway of the Day..
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
this' a place where you can actually have that licensed software for free! and no strings attached.. :)
these guys really give you a licensed software free everyday!

now that is a cool idea.. and a really cool marketing strategy.. :)
hats off to the guys who thought about and actually pulled it off..

though it's not free as in freedom, but sure as in 'free beer' ;) oh yeah, that makes it only second to GNU.. but hey, I, for one, surely wouldn't mind a free beer :) particularly somethin as good as this one :)
(psst.. only metaphorically, coz I don't like beer :D )

there's a sister project called Game Giveaway of the Day.. but dint like it much.. they seem to giveaway quite a lot of the games I wouldn't wanna play :(

they've announced that they'd soon be givin out some of the popular titles for free! I sure am excited! :)

why's product development sexier?
coz of the kick you get when you see someone (apart from yourself of course ;) ) finding it useful and actually liking it :)
'tis about a plugin I wrote for IntelliJ..
[http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=1126]
someone liked it enuf to visit the page and rate it as well :) [I never told them to.. I don't even kno them.. honest!]
hmm.. feels good :)
guess 'tis motivation enuf to improve the plugin (n work on others I was too lazy to start on :D )